Trentonian Editorial: An Obama circus

Friday, November 23, 2012

Behold the huffy defense that ObamaCrats have mounted in behalf of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. When she went forth on five TV news shows to parrot the administration’s line on the Benghazi massacre, she was only saying what she had been told to say. President Obama said so himself.

Nevermind that she — reportedly now on tap to be Secretary of State — was mindlessly reciting a line that had been debunked five days before she was dispatched to be the White House mouthpiece.

You might call the ObamaCrat defense of Rice “the dumb broad” defense. It wouldn’t be any more patronizing and insulting than the defense itself.

This defense says, in effect: Why would you expect her to ask any questions about what she was told to say? Why would you expect her to apply any independent analysis to the information she was told to spout? She’s just a dumb broad who’s saying what she was told to say. Not only a dumb broad but, being a girl, she’s too weak to stand up to those mean Republican guys.

Ring master Obama himself said: “She had nothing to do with Benghazi.” You want to pick on somebody, pick on somebody your own size, me, for example. Which leads to the obvious question the lap-dog White House media have refrained from pursuing: Since Rice had nothing to do with Benghazi, why was she sent out to speak on the Benghazi controversy and not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? (Clinton, by the way, seems to have practically absconded from the scene of the controversy.)

Let us hasten to add that we don’t buy for a moment the ObamaCrat “defense” of Rice that she’s just a dumb broad. Or that she’s incapable of standing up for herself. Nor do we buy for a moment the ObamaCrat fallback defense that any criticism of Rice is prima facie evidence of racism and/or sexism. We don’t doubt, though, that she was indeed saying what she was told to say, namely, that the 9/11 terrorist attack in which four Americans were savagely murdered was merely an understandable “spontaneous” protest over a YourTube video that was offensive to Muslims.

The top intelligence bureaucrat, James Clapper, reportedly has now stepped forward to say he was the one who deleted references to a terror group from Rice’s TV show script and left the poor helpless little lady to yammer about a spontaneous protest. Previously, Claptrapper reportedly told a congressional inquiry than he didn’t know nuthin’ about her talking points.

If this weren’t a tragic debacle that needlessly cost four Americans their lives while candidate Obama was blathering on and on about al Qaeda being on the run, the circular finger-pointing aftermath would be a farcical clown act. But the particpants in the polka-dot pantaloons, outsized flappy shoes and bulbous noses cavorting around the ring are the people in charge of our national security. It only hurts when you laugh.